Swimming
The Empty Dataset and the Line Between Storytelling and Fabrication in Swimming AnalysisOne morning in Da Nang, I opened the analysis file I had been waiting two day...
24 Names and Three Gaps: Australia Finalises Short Course Squad for Beijing 2026I have a slightly odd professional habit: every time a swimming federation...
Swimming before a new cycle: When data is empty, narrative fills the gapIn a data-compilation night in Shanghai, I opened my swimming tracking sheet...
Anh Vien Returns to the Pool: Four Golds at Phu Tho and What Medals Cannot SayOn the evening of October 2, the Phu Tho pool in Ho Chi Minh City hosted a me...
Four Splits and an African Record: Pieter Coetze Won on the Final 25 MetresAt the 75-metre mark, Pieter Coetze was trailing Pavel Samusenko by exactly...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Unbuilt Data Layer and the Post-Anh Vien EquationThree years after Nguyen Thi Anh Vien closed her peak competitive chapter,...
The One Teaching Flip Turns to Ten-Year-Olds: Why Swimming's Peak Is Decided at the Bottom5:47 p.m., Rosemead Aquatics Center, a suburb east of Los Angeles. The...
Ben Armbruster Clocks 22.00 at the Australian Short Course Championships: A Home-Soil Record and 17th on the All-Time World ListThe scoreboard showed four characters: 22.00. Ben Armbruster looked up and...
Tuna Swim Club's Job Description: The Skeleton of a Swimming ProgramOne Hundredth of a Second and One Architectural Error For years, sitting in t...
Golden Goggle 2026: The Denver Night and USA Swimming's Blueprint for LA 2028On the red carpet in Denver, Kate Douglass was not wearing goggles. She was i...
Seven Golds, One World Record and a 4.27-Second Gap: What Asian Swimming Is Actually SayingOn the finals night of swimming at the 2026 Asian Games, two lanes sat a few...
College Swim League launches: ISL-style skins format enters US college swimmingThe team that wins the 4x50 freestyle relay gets to choose the stroke for the...
Alex Siegel Commits to Virginia: The Data File Behind the Seventh Pledge of the Class of 2028In the middle lane, over the final three laps of the 1650-yard freestyle, the...
2:04.83 and the Data Gap Behind Shin Ohashi's World RecordThe moment the electronic scoreboard flipped to 2:04.83, I stayed at my scree...
Mert Taşbaşı and SMU: The 50-Meter to 25-Yard Conversion Problem for a Turkish BreaststrokerPeople watch the finish; I watch the ten strokes before it. In a swimming poo...
Kiera Powers Commits to Ohio State: Reading the 1:59.79 Profile Before It Becomes a HeadlineLast February, on a 25-yard course at the Ohio High School Division I State...
The Empty Cell: What a Null Result Taught Me About the Analysis TradeAt 11:47 p.m. in Saigon, the ceiling fan turned, the coffee had long gone col...
Cameron McEvoy Tests 100m Freestyle at the Short-Course World Cup: A Ten-Year-Old Data Set Awaits VerificationThe 20.88-second long-course 50m freestyle world record is attached to Camero...
Decoding the Lane: The Nine Dimensions of Swimming and How Data Overturns the StoryThe wall was touched, yet the race was still speaking. That is the line I wri...
24 Names and Three Gaps: Australia Finalises Short Course Squad for Beijing 2026I have a slightly odd professional habit: every time a swimming federation...
Swimming before a new cycle: When data is empty, narrative fills the gapIn a data-compilation night in Shanghai, I opened my swimming tracking sheet...
Anh Vien Returns to the Pool: Four Golds at Phu Tho and What Medals Cannot SayOn the evening of October 2, the Phu Tho pool in Ho Chi Minh City hosted a me...
Four Splits and an African Record: Pieter Coetze Won on the Final 25 MetresAt the 75-metre mark, Pieter Coetze was trailing Pavel Samusenko by exactly...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Unbuilt Data Layer and the Post-Anh Vien EquationThree years after Nguyen Thi Anh Vien closed her peak competitive chapter,...
The One Teaching Flip Turns to Ten-Year-Olds: Why Swimming's Peak Is Decided at the Bottom5:47 p.m., Rosemead Aquatics Center, a suburb east of Los Angeles. The...
Ben Armbruster Clocks 22.00 at the Australian Short Course Championships: A Home-Soil Record and 17th on the All-Time World ListThe scoreboard showed four characters: 22.00. Ben Armbruster looked up and...
Tuna Swim Club's Job Description: The Skeleton of a Swimming ProgramOne Hundredth of a Second and One Architectural Error For years, sitting in t...
Golden Goggle 2026: The Denver Night and USA Swimming's Blueprint for LA 2028On the red carpet in Denver, Kate Douglass was not wearing goggles. She was i...
Seven Golds, One World Record and a 4.27-Second Gap: What Asian Swimming Is Actually SayingOn the finals night of swimming at the 2026 Asian Games, two lanes sat a few...
College Swim League launches: ISL-style skins format enters US college swimmingThe team that wins the 4x50 freestyle relay gets to choose the stroke for the...
Alex Siegel Commits to Virginia: The Data File Behind the Seventh Pledge of the Class of 2028In the middle lane, over the final three laps of the 1650-yard freestyle, the...
2:04.83 and the Data Gap Behind Shin Ohashi's World RecordThe moment the electronic scoreboard flipped to 2:04.83, I stayed at my scree...
Mert Taşbaşı and SMU: The 50-Meter to 25-Yard Conversion Problem for a Turkish BreaststrokerPeople watch the finish; I watch the ten strokes before it. In a swimming poo...
Kiera Powers Commits to Ohio State: Reading the 1:59.79 Profile Before It Becomes a HeadlineLast February, on a 25-yard course at the Ohio High School Division I State...
The Empty Cell: What a Null Result Taught Me About the Analysis TradeAt 11:47 p.m. in Saigon, the ceiling fan turned, the coffee had long gone col...
Cameron McEvoy Tests 100m Freestyle at the Short-Course World Cup: A Ten-Year-Old Data Set Awaits VerificationThe 20.88-second long-course 50m freestyle world record is attached to Camero...
Decoding the Lane: The Nine Dimensions of Swimming and How Data Overturns the StoryThe wall was touched, yet the race was still speaking. That is the line I wri...
